Lewis Madison Terman - Research Article from Science and Its Times

American psychologist who developed the Stanford-Binet intelligence test. In 1916, while a professor of education at Stanford University, Terman published The Measurement of Intelligence, which served as a guide to his version of the Binet-Simon intelligence scale. Stanford-Binet test scores were expressed as the intelligence quotient (IQ). Test scores were based on both chronological age and mental age so that the average person of any age would have an IQ of
100. The test was used extensively by the U.S. Army during World War I. Terman also carried out research on gifted children.